rachel maddow was pointing out the voting heights story was highly consequential. the gay marriage story was viewview ed celebratory. there was a lot of happiness. the supreme court was probably mirroring public opinion and the media were mirroring the supreme court's mirroring. but the voting rights story which is very important, it's hard to visualize what might happen, what bad actions might come because of this and it was completely swept away. >> it really was swept away, and it ignored the follow-on stories that there should have been about the individual states and voter suppression acts that they are now enacting. >> it's partly the nature of television. television doesn't do policy very well and doesn't do nuance very well but it does stories very well. >> pictures and emotions, all of that. >> it does individuals very well. and gay rights, there were real stories and real emotion. >> let me put up some numbers by the pew research center before the high court ruling. these were stories dealing with same-sex marriage. if you look at msnbc, the comments, 64%